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taste
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What the food industry does is use MSG to trick the taste receptors into thinking that it is about to receive any of the substances it usually detects.
The gene TAS2R38 encodes for a protein in the taste receptors on the tongue which allows us to taste bitterness.
The term can refer to what remains after the tongue's taste receptors have been activated, or, in Pierre Bourdieu's more political metaphor, to those morsels of aesthetic appreciation tied to class or regimes of domination, but now surviving only as inert, ironic remnants.
 
 
 
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